Helping Special Friends Inc

Analysis

Helping Special Friends Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Helping Special Friends Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $440k to $1.4m (+210%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Helping Special Friends Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dreamland Preschool Inc ($1.4m), Emmanuel Family Homes Inc ($1.4m) and Ycs Foundation Inc ($1.4m).

Other salaries and wages came to $556k. At year end it held assets of $0 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $0. It reported 10 employees.